A tribute to Prince by Karen Dawn, who is an animal advocate and author: We have all heard the shocking news that Prince has died. What much of the world has not heard is that Prince's...
Posted 22 Apr 2016
World Day for Animals in Laboratories is marked on the 24th April each year. Established in 1979, this is a day when people around the globe gather to remember those animals who have suffered and...
Posted 21 Apr 2016
For those horrified by the deaths of seven horses at the 2016 Cheltenham Festival, please make a pledge to help with Animal Aid's Horse Racing Awareness Week.
Posted 22 Mar 2016
With the racing establishment desperately trying to dampen any news and debate about multiple deaths at this year’s Cheltenham Festival, another two horses have perished on the final day of the Gloucestershire meeting.
Posted 18 Mar 2016
An exhausted horse, brought to the ground by the demands of running in the big race, continues to be whipped by his dementedly ambitious jockey. The rider cries ‘Come on! They’re getting away!’ It is...
Posted 03 Mar 2016
Eleven horses were killed on British racecourses in as many days during February – a death toll that serves as a depressing curtain-raiser for the Cheltenham Festival (March 15-18), which itself is a graveyard for...
Posted 01 Mar 2016
National campaign group Animal Aid is demanding a complete shutdown of Catterick Bridge racecourse after a spate of deaths this January in which four horses have been killed in just three days of racing.
Posted 28 Jan 2016
The popular notion of a dog being man’s best friend is clearly not recognised at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), where researchers have been subjecting beagle-crosses to painful experiments that aim to alleviate human, rather...
Posted 20 Jan 2016
An application to build a factory farm in Lincolnshire that would have reared nearly 2,000 pigs at a time will not be going ahead.
Posted 13 Jan 2016
New Year, a new you? Why not make your new year’s resolution a compassionate one! We have compiled a list of ten steps you can take to ensure you make 2016 a more compassionate year...
Posted 28 Dec 2015